The Centuries Surround Me with Fire

The Centuries Surround Me with Fire (1976)

January 11th, 19760h 47min

Documentary
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A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), the groundbreaking Soviet poet and dissident.


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